Sustainable design of houses. The assignments for this subject are all about making a brief for your own housing project, and this week I am trying to find some examples of designs I like. There is a subject I will do next year that focuses on landcape as well.
I think I’ve found my examples now:
This one for "quality" (as in quality of light etc, not quality of the building work itself)
Image: A garden alcove in the house brings light and relaxing views inside the house, with a corridor opposite the alcove providing a day bed with space to relax.
This space is designed to both connect the inside to the back yard, and also provides a multitude of sliding doors and shutters to enable it to be varied for different times of day and different seasons.
Sustainable design of houses. The assignments for this subject are all about making a brief for your own housing project, and this week I am trying to find some examples of designs I like. There is a subject I will do next year that focuses on landcape as well.
I think I’ve found my examples now:
This one for "quality" (as in quality of light etc, not quality of the building work itself)
Garden Tower House
Image: A garden alcove in the house brings light and relaxing views inside the house, with a corridor opposite the alcove providing a day bed with space to relax.
This one for "functional"
Bellvue Terrace
This space is designed to both connect the inside to the back yard, and also provides a multitude of sliding doors and shutters to enable it to be varied for different times of day and different seasons.
Fascinating. Both seem to have a very japanese feel to them, while being quite different. This sounds like a very interesting assignment.
The bellvue terrace is a huge no from me. I wouldn’t survive those steps after a few.
I’d definitely be avoiding the steps for myself too, but the space above it looks pretty good.